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On 17 December 2024, Willie Stewart presented his well-kown style of quiz, having done it for over twenty years. The wide range of questions tripped up most people, but the star of the evening was Brian Hignett.
Brian is pictured receiving a fine bottle of wine from President Colin.
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3 December 2024
Not long to go till our Tree of Remembrance collection starts. But you can see the tree already at our new location, next to the Grain Exchange on the High Street. Over the last three years, the Rotary Tree of Remembrance has raised just under £20000, shared between Ayrshire Hospice, Ayrshire Cancer ...
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The Salvation Army Food Bank is one of the charities Ayr Rotary support with on-going donations throughout the year. In October their stocks had run particularly low, and a plea was put out to members to make a special cash donation to allow the organiser to buy the most needed supplies. A great response resulted in ...
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Fourteen members attended a fantastic visit to UPM Caledonian Paper Mill in Irvine today. An interesting talk from Andy Johnston, development manager, followed by a tour of the mill. The scale is colossal, with the 400m production line, turning wood pulp into paper. Enormous rollers compress and dry the paper onto 8 metre ...
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Ayr Rotary organised a visit to the Heritage Centre in Cumncck on 26 July 2024.
Following a recent visit to the Club by Jim Smith, explaining how he had restored a Victorian steam fire engine, several members expressed an interest in visiting the Centre. And what a revelation! The place is packed full of vintage ...
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Our annual Ayr Rotary Charity Golf Day was a huge success thanks to the generosity of the local businesses and individuals who played. We have disbursed the funds to two fantastic groups - the Crosshouse Children's Fund and the Ayrshire Coastal Path. That still leaves money in the kitty to be given to other ...
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In beautiful warm sunshine, eighteen teams teed-off to compete in the Ayr Rotary Club Annual Charity Golf Day at Belleisle Park on Friday 3rd May 2024. This event is the main fund-raiser in the club’s calendar, and over £9000 was raised for local charities. The principal beneficiaries this year are the Crosshouse ...
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Report ny Mary-Helen Shakespeare
Lucy, Sophie and Emma from Kyle Academy, barely 15, were chosen to represent Scotland in the National final of Youth Speaks which took place in Norwich on Sunday 21st April 2024 at the John Innes Conference Centre. They had already beaten all other teams in Scotland.
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Well, the wind blew strongly as forecast but thankfully the rain stayed away from most of us and we all apparently enjoyed the fun and friendship.
This year’s big beach clean attracted 225 environmentally-conscious folk to tackle 21 beaches between Girvan in the south and Seamill in the north, thus helping to brush-up ...
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We say goodby to one of our great Rotarians, Kenneth Dickie, who died earlier this week. A past President and Secretary we will miss his sparkling humour, his funny monologues and his friendship.
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